Flores

MEMORANDUM **

Appellants appeal from the judgment entered following a jury verdict in favor of Flores in her quid pro quo sexual harassment action. We affirm.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Flores and resolving credibility issues in her favor, there was substantial evidence to support the jury’s Title VII and FEHA liability determinations notwithstanding that the requests for sexual favors were implicit in nature and that some of defendant Morrow’s conduct, viewed in the abstract, could be interpreted as innocent. The ambiguous requests to “read between the lines” must be construed in context. For instance, the re *773 quests were repeated. In addition, the first request was made at the home of a supervisor, not a place of business. Body language (including the spreading of legs) and physical facts (public hairs on paperwork provided by Morrow to Flores), moreover, support the jury’s inference that Morrow’s words had sexual, rather than innocent, meaning. In addition, this course of conduct occurred in the context of statements through which Morrow emphasized that he had control over Flores’ career. We therefore reject defendants’ claim that the evidence was…